Mania Review - Asobi ni Ikuyo: Bombshells from the Sky Episode #08

Mania:
For all of the build up, as this episode is framed as a combat competition between Manami and Aoi, the actual fight was over fairly quickly. More time was spent showing the two girls sitting under trees during a rainstorm than in any fighting. While one has come not to expect much in the way of action scenes in this show, it might have been nice, for a change of pace, to have put in a heart-pounding, jaw dropping duel between these two lethal ladies. Instead, we had a lot of talking inside of heads, and Manami finally admitting to herself what everyone else already knew 5 episodes or more ago: that she likes Kio, though she thinks that it is now far too late for her to do anything about it.